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2020-06-17, 04:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
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2020-06-17, 04:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
Well, he was capable of doing that by spending a huge chunk of his available energy budget. It's not something he did trivially, and certainly not something he can afford to do while his own core generator is under attack. Fortunately removing the Hypergun takes out the Paanuri's only cost-effective means of attacking between the galaxies, and they've got Dark Matter Schlock and the local Milky Way forces to help take out the battlegroups that were sent in there now..
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2020-06-17, 05:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
1. This Tagon definitely seems smarter.
2. How many currently active Tagons are there? One in the computer, one in Andromeda, is there a third?Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2020-06-17, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-06-20, 12:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
Thread title drop, like a boss. No, unfortunately he did not say "eat it" as well.
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2020-06-20, 03:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
Schlock bringing intimidation and spreading terror by promising to eat somebody. It feels like this strip is returning to the roots.
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2020-06-20, 08:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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- The Netherlands
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2020-06-20, 09:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-06-21, 02:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2007
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
It's sometimes easy to forget that Schlock is actually very intelligent, just a bit careless--to figure out that he can use his Pa'anuri abilities to make a ship's hull vibrate and turn it into a giant speaker is pretty darned inspired.
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2020-06-21, 06:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2005
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
Probably remembered that time Xinchub did it with a battleplate.
Man this thing was full of outdated stuff.
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2020-06-21, 03:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
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2020-06-21, 05:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-06-23, 02:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2007
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
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2020-06-23, 10:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
Too bad is nowhere near time yet for another thread title, or I'd be suggesting Too hunrgy to die!"
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2020-06-24, 12:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
I don't think it's ever been made clear why the Pa'anuri have got into this attitude that they can't co-exist alongside baryonic life, has it? Does anyone have a link for where that's mentioned before?
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2020-06-24, 07:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
We haven't heard it from the Pa'anuri themselves, but we've seen other people speculate. One theory is that they were basically created as intelligent slaves which ultimately resulted in an AI rebellion. The Hrathi have long speculated that someday, some idiot will accidentally create an entire race of dark matter sociopaths.
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2020-06-24, 10:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
You mean here.
One reason may also be related to the usage of teraports and other hyperspace manipulations of baryonic life to be able to move from point A to point B.
It 'pollutes' the local space and rips Pa'anuri apart.
And since Andromeda and the Milky Way are set to intersect at some point in the future... the long game.May you get EXACTLY what you wish for.
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2020-06-24, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
The Gatekeepers were keeping the treaty and it was the DMB that tried to blow up the Milky Way. The generator that Petey took over was supposed to be used to keep the Milky Way and Andromeda from colliding and in theory it might be able to do that. Also the DMB went out after the world ships which were self isolating and had nothing to do with just about anything. The very opposite of the DBM.
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2020-06-25, 06:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
It's not often that I can use one thread's title in another thread.
Petey: "Hoy! Hennybody else not dead? "Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2020-06-26, 12:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
So this is what that whole soul teraporter discussion was about. They're going to digitize or baryonize the whole species.
I'll admit, there are much worse solutions...Last edited by Lvl 2 Expert; 2020-06-26 at 12:49 AM.
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2020-06-27, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
And our favorite mercs even have an experienced specialist for 'afterlife-management'.
That's convincient
I'll admit, there are much worse solutions...Last edited by hajo; 2020-06-27 at 01:28 PM.
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2020-06-27, 05:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
Last edited by sihnfahl; 2020-06-27 at 05:55 PM.
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2020-07-09, 08:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
So it seems the Toughs are now the most powerful polity in both Andromeda and the Milky Way. Literally, since, y'know, they control the power.
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2020-07-09, 11:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-10, 01:16 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
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2020-07-10, 01:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
How does Schlock even control that generator? I get that he seems to have gotten a lot smarter and better with physics since growing, but the whole reason those dronuri exist is that dark matter entities cannot manipulate baryonic matter finely enough to run a core generator. So what, Petey's generator was still running normally, and then Schlock parked in front of it and said "this is mine now, you can't touch it"?
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2020-07-10, 01:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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2020-07-10, 02:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
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2020-07-10, 07:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
I'm guessing the Pa'anuri was in a hurry to get it under control before something Very Bad happened.
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2020-07-10, 07:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Schlock Mercenary X: The Mundivore, or, "Eat it"
Hmm. They shot the long gun, not the core generator? You don't suppose that perhaps the core generator had gone into "going unstable" after the control cable was destroyed, and they'd rather have someone plugged in and keeping it from going ka-blammo than worry about who?
Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"